Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Matt:
>
>> why not just use your current cacti setup and
>> enable snmp on each of the hosts? That seems like
>> the simplest and cheapest approach.
>
> As I understand it, I would actually have to
> enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts.
>
> Am I wrong?
>
Yes - the host would see the total traffic. The only other way to separate it
would be something upstream (switch/router, etc.) that knows how to do sflow
plus a collector device. These are typically pretty expensive. For some small
number of guests it might be cheaper to add NICs to your hosts and bridge the
guests to individual NICs where you could monitor on either the host interface
or the connected switch port. You might be able to simulate this with some
clever use of vlans but I'm not sure how they interact with the virtual nic bridges.
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